Of course I cared. That’s why I was trying to figure it out. Fuck. Absolute fuck!
This had never happened when I was around Tate before, why the fuck was it happening now? He walked towards me, the scent of him growing ever stronger, filling my nostrils, filling my head, making me picture all the different things I wanted to do to him if I could just get him alone. I needed to calm down. This was my brother’s wedding and all I could suddenly do was think about hooking up with Tate. More than that, mating with him. I wanted to be on him right now and it was only the fact that my brothers were stood just a few feet away from me that was stopping me.
And he is your brother’s best friend.
How had this happened? It was so fucked up my head was spinning.
“Somebody’s pleased to see me,” he said, nodding down to my crotch. I looked down to see that I was rock hard, the outline of my cock pressed so tightly against my suit trousers you could see every ridge, the head of it pronounced no doubt leaking into my underwear. “You trying to tell me something, Chasen?”
I took a shuddering breath as I turned my focus to him, trying not to let my cheeks go red that Tate Heeley had just seen the outline of my fully hard and throbbing dick through my pants at the mere scent of him and I could hardly contain myself.
“You look really good, Tate,” I said in what I hoped was a gruff and sexy sounding growl. It probably didn’t come of because he blinked and almost took a step back from me.
“Thanks, Chasen,” he breathed, looking me up and down. “So do you you.” He reached up a hand and touched my jawline. His touch burned against my skin. “I’ll see you at the ceremony.” He bit his lip and walked away, no doubt towards Brent’s quarters to help him get ready for the ceremony.
As he walked away, I could feel myself starting to calm down, my hard-on subsiding, the scent of him drifting away with him. I leaned on the door frame, staring after him, watching his beautiful ass, so tight and high in those suit pants, wiggling away from me. This was wrong.
There was no way that he could be my fated mate. There was just no way. Tate was an alpha, for one, so there wasn’t really any way we would be compatible. I mean, we could get off with one another if we wanted to for sure and the way that we’ve flirted over the past few years, I wouldn’t have been surprised if that was on the cards at some point, we both seemed like we’d be up for it. But he couldn’t be my fated.
There was just no way it could be true. After all the time I’d spent with Tate, all the jokey flirting we had done, how could it be possible that we were fated? And yet, I could scent him like I would if we were fated, I was attracted to him as I would be if we were fated, all signs pointed to Tate being my fated mate. It was like a confusing yet beautiful dream come true. I looked back into the room and saw Slater helping Jarrett fix his tie. That was where my focus needed to be today, not on Tate and whatever the heck it was I was feeling just then.
“You about ready, Jarrett?” I said. “You should probably get yourself out there otherwise Brent will think he’s got a runaway wolf on his hands.”
“That would be a nice turnaround,” he said. “Given how he was the one that ran away when we first met.” He checked his hair one last time. It looked great, of course it did, it always did, and I found myself filled with a strange sort of fatherly pride that he was getting married.
“I’m really proud of you, Jarrett,” I said. He looked at me in the mirror, stopping mid-hair adjustment. “You know Dad would be too and, I don’t know, just looking at you getting it together with Brent, starting a family, it makes me so happy. So, if I get too drunk to say it or just plain forget because it’s me, congratulations little brother.”
Jarrett hurried over and hugged me tight, wrapping his arms around my back and nuzzling his face into my neck. “Thank you, Chasen,” he mumbled. “I really appreciate that.”
Slater appeared at my side and clapped me on the back. I looked at him and saw that he had tears welling up in his eyes, a very satisfied looking smile on his face. I’d said the right thing and made my big brother proud of me too. It was what felt like a rare good moment for me, and another good moment for a little pack that was mere moments away from officially becoming a little bigger.
We walked out of the Alpha’s Den together and to the main hall, all three of us walking down and greeting our friends before standing at the front and waiting for Brent. He didn’t step out first, instead little Emery stepped out, throwing rose petals down the aisle, everyone beaming at how gorgeous she looked in her pretty pink dress. I enjoyed getting to know Emery, and how much I seemed to like being around children. It boded well for my future if I could ever track down my fated mate.
Then Tate walked out in his suit. And holy shit I’d already forgotten how good he’d looked when he walked in. Maybe it was the lighting in here but he suddenly looked even better and I found myself struggling for breath. I wanted to run over to him and tell him how great he looked, lift him up into my arms and whisper sweet nothings into his ears and kiss him until he knew how beautiful he was.. The thoughts struck me with such a surprise I had to take a breath to compose myself. This was not how you were supposed to feel about a close friend, someone who you have had great banter with for the past few years. This was how you looked at a fated mate. How could Tate be that for me? He looked truly gorgeous and I couldn’t help but feel like he knew it too.
I watched him carefully as he stood on the opposite side of the little podium, adjusting his collar, fanning himself with his hand. And I caught his scent once again, it coming off him in waves and filling my body. I could feel myself getting hot and bothered, hardly able to keep my eyes off him, having to use every bit of will power I had to not step across that podium and take him right here, right now.
Could it be possible? He wouldn’t meet my gaze, which was so unlike Tate. After seeing my hard cock earlier on he would be ribbing me about it wouldn’t he, really giving me shit? But not today. Today he was different. Today there was something between us.
I had to swallow another shuddering breath. Could it be true? Could I have found my fated mate? And could he really have been right under my nose this whole time?
I watched the way he struggled a little longer, the way he couldn’t keep himself together. It was unmistakably heat and I could smell it on him, smell his slick coming over to me even at this distance, calling out to me, telling me that the next thing I need to do is be ready to mount him and claim him as my own. But how? This was Tate we were talking about here, the best friend of my younger brother, the guy I get coffee from and flirt with every day.
I could hardly breathe, and yet I couldn’t take my eyes off him. He was right there waiting for me. And I had to have him. And I would, I could feel it in my entire body, a sort of thrilling rush that knew something would happen tonight. It was in the air, thick around us, a thin coil connecting us from across the room. I was sure he could feel it too, as if our hearts were beating in tandem, the two of us counting down the seconds until we could be alone. And that time would come. I could hardly wait.
4
Tate
Brent was nervous as hell, but given that he was about to be bonded to his fated mate (aka, the absolute dream), I could hardly blame him. I think he was more excited than he was nervous. He wasn’t about to go full disappearing act on Jarrett, but he was jittery. It was pretty cute actually.
“I just can’t believe this is happening to me,” Brent said, checking his bowtie in the mirror one more time before we had to head out for the ceremony. “I feel sick. Is it all right if I feel sick?”
“I think I’d be more worried if you were going into this completely calm,” I said, patting him on the shoulder. “This is it Brent, this is the dream. Enjoy it!”
I wasn’t really feeling too hot myself considering I’d just bumped into Chasen with a raging hard-on, staring at me as I walked down the corridor. I hoped I managed to play it off as cool and he didn’t notice anything but I was fe
eling pretty hot under the collar as I got closer to him. It was like the atmosphere was thick with the scent of him, the absolute manly wolfishness of him filling the air and making my knees go weak. I was scared of him turning me into a puddle right there and then but I think I managed to make him think I was totally unaffected. But standing a little ways away from him while Brent and Jarrett were having their bonding ceremony was more than a little too much for me.
I picked up his scent again, getting more intense as the ceremony. I could feel his eyes on me; feel him looking at every inch of me, taking me in, trying to figure me out. I don’t think I managed to play it off as cool any more, my body reacting to the proximity, sweat beading on my forehead, my heart pounding at a million miles a minute, becoming slick as I went into heat, as my body seemed to be getting ready for him. Fuck!
It was typical really. The one night I couldn’t find my anti-heat pills turns out to be the night that I find my alpha, my fated mate. It was definitely coming from Chasen. How could this have happened? It was everything I’d ever wanted but it just seemed too good to be true. No one ever got their happily-ever-afters did they? And how could Chasen and I had not known it already? It just didn’t make sense! It made me wonder if I was making it all up, if I was imagining it happening.
We’d spent so much time flirting with one another over the years, so much playful back and forth that I thought we’d at least end in us hooking up but I hadn’t expected for even a second that he would be my fated mate. I mean, we’d be perfect together. I just thought one day I’d see him running off to get bonded to some other young twinkish wolf and I’d be left sad and alone. I didn’t think it was me the entire time, hiding in plain sight.
I’d hidden my omeganess for years, disguising myself as an alpha so I wouldn’t get my heart broken by the one guy who I secretly hoped and prayed I would get a chance with. Chasen.
He gazed at the happy couple now, watching as they exchanged their own written vows. He looked so damn handsome in that suit it was all I could do not to fall at his feet now and start worshiping the ground on which he stood.
Fucking hell. I needed to calm down.
Jarrett looked over at me, no doubt seeing that I wasn’t looking too good right now. His eyebrows knitted together in concern.
“You all right?” he mouthed.
I nodded. I wasn’t but I wasn’t about to let him know that. I mean, he was my best friend and he cared about me, but I wasn’t about to let him know that his brother sent me into full-blown heat and I wasn’t sure if there was anything I could do to stop it.
This was going to be hard to navigate. I could already feel it. Jarrett was my best friend, Chasen was his older brother, wasn’t there some rule somewhere that said the two of us shouldn’t be together? I could see it all getting messy.
I caught Chasen’s eye and felt my knees going weak, my body reacting to just his look. I tugged at my collar and saw a smirk tug at the corners of his mouth. He knew. He had to know. If he hadn’t figured it out earlier on when I’d seen him at the Alpha’s den, he would have figured it out now. I could only hope he didn’t blow my cover. I didn’t want to pull focus from Jarrett and Brent on their special day. But I couldn’t resist him. If the ceremony weren’t happening right now I would probably be at his side, waiting to find out what he wanted to do with me, if anything at all.
I shook my head and turned my gaze back to the happy couple. The full moon tonight was really doing a number on me. No meds and a full moon? I was in full blown heat and, if Chasen read the signs as well as I thought he was, something was definitely going to happen tonight.
The ceremony was beautiful and I couldn’t really stop myself from getting emotional when Jarrett took the bonding bite. I imagined that Chasen and Slater were feeling a similar way to how I was, wishing that it were them who were getting bonded to their fated mate. This was honestly the dream for a lot of us. It was great to see Jarrett having all his wishes come true, but we all wanted it for ourselves too. We couldn’t help feeling a little jealous.
With the ceremony over and the cake having been cut, I knew that I didn’t have long before we would be going on the full moon run. I didn’t want to go in my current state so I took the opportunity during a lull to escape for a little while to get myself cleaned up. I’d been standing around trying to keep myself away from Chasen for so long that my slick had me feeling pretty disgusting.
I didn’t tell anyone where I was going. I didn’t really plan on being gone for very long, I just wanted some time away from the party, away from the heat of Chasen that was making me go mad with desire and lust. It was not a good color on me and I was worried about what would happen if we found ourselves close together.
“Everything okay?” Jonica suddenly appeared in front of me and I all but screamed. “You look sick? Are you sick?”
“I’m fine.”
“I’ve not started drinking yet, so if you need me to drive home later just say now and-“
“Jonica,” I said, putting a hand on her shoulder. “I’m honestly fine.”
“Your hands are really clammy,” she said, peeling me off her. “Are you sure you’re not coming down with something?”
I took a deep breath. “I’m feeling a little bit under the weather,” I said. “It came on all of a sudden. I don’t think it’s anything serious, I think it’s the lights and the emotions of the day. I’m just going to step outside before the moonlight run, get some fresh air, that might make me feel better.”
“Just go into one of the rooms,” she said. “Everybody’s out here, so you know they’ll be empty. Just chill there and I’ll come find you when we’re about to start the run, okay?”
I smiled. She really was a sweetheart. “Thanks Jonica, I might do that.”
As I crossed the floor, I was fairly certain I could feel his eyes on me, watching me, perhaps just following my scent as I tried to escape him, even for a few moments.
I made my way down the winding corridors and found my way to the Alpha den, the one that I’d seen Chasen in earlier on today. It really was fancy in there. There were mirrors all around the edges of the room that were lit, a bathroom with a shower, a couple of sofas; it was more like a star dressing room than it was an alpha’s vestibule.
I took off my jacket and sat down in front of one of the mirrors, looking at my reflection. I really did look a mess. I was sweaty and my eyes looked a little red, my hair had fallen flat. No wonder Jonica was concerned. I’d be concerned if I saw me looking like this. Chasen was probably just looking at me because I looked so unlike myself. Maybe it’s somebody else here that is supposed to be my alpha. Maybe I’d spend the rest of my life with some other guy, wishing that they were Chasen instead. I should’ve stayed at home when I couldn’t find my fucking pills.
There was a knock at the door. Maybe Jonica had followed me to make sure I hadn’t passed out or something. But as I stood up to walk towards the door, I caught that scent again, the one that had been following my around all day, all night. I hoped against hope that it would be Chasen behind the door.
I reached for the handle and opened it to see Chasen, just as I had thought it would be. He didn’t say a word. He barged into the room and grabbed me, pressing his lips onto mine. Fireworks exploded between us, that thread that had been connecting us all night wrapped around us both and finally pulled us together. It was happening. It was really happening.
5
Chasen
I grabbed his head and kissed him hard on the lips, the world exploding behind my eyes. This was it. This was everything I had ever wanted to do to Tate, all happening at once. Who knew that we could have been fated? Who knew that this could have been destiny all this time? What the hell had taken us so long?
He moaned into my mouth as I bit his bottom lip, his mouth opened and his tongue snaked out to dance with mine in the space between. I pressed my body to his, letting my hands travel down from the sides of his head to his shoulders, to his sides, pulli
ng him so close that we could become one person if we just worked hard enough.
I felt his hard cock pressing against mine. There was far too much fabric between us. I wanted to touch him, I wanted to feel every inch of his body with the tips of my fingers, explore it with my tongue, claim him as my own. I hoped he would let me, he seemed to be enjoying this just as much as I was.
We came up for air; our foreheads pressed together, our breath coming in pants, hot, hard, and heavy.
“Oh fuck, Chasen if I’d known-“
“I know.”
“We could have been doing this-“
“I know,” I interrupted. We should have been doing this for years. If I’d had known it could have felt so good. I kissed him again, my hands reaching out to fumble with the buttons on his shirt. I shook, why was I shaking? I was struggling to get them undone. As soon as it came apart, my hands found his bare skin. He gasped as I grabbed hold of him, pulled him to me, feeling the smoothness of his body.
I wanted to take him in, wanted to see all of him like I had never seen him before. I took a step away and looked at him. He was so beautiful, so innocent there, his hairless chest heaving, his toned stomach rippled with the effort of us taking a break from the action.
He throbbed in his pants. I did the same. I didn’t know how much longer we could go on like this before I would have to be inside him. I needed to be inside him, my body longed for it, the wolf prowling my veins howled for it.
“Wow,” I managed.
“What?”
“Just you,” I said. “Just look at you,” I added, licking my lips. I started back towards him but he held up a hand. I stopped, suddenly scared that he was going to call the whole thing off. That was the last thing I wanted. I needed this. I needed him to let me have him.
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